About Maria Korolov

Maria Korolov is an award-winning tech journalist who covers cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and extended reality.
She’s also a science fiction author and the editor and founder of MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction, and of Hypergrid Business, one of the world’s top virtual reality blogs.
Contact her at maria@korolov.com to pitch articles or to hire her as writer, editor, or speaker at your event.
Follow her on Twitter at @MariaKorolov, on Threads at @MariaKorolov, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel.
Latest AI articles
SUSE expands AI tools to control workloads, LLM usage
SUSE expanded its nascent AI platform with a small selections of tools and capabilities, and a partnership with Infosys
7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves
10 ways hackers will use machine learning to launch attacks
As AI scales, infrastructure challenges emerge
Latest quantum computing articles
IBM, Microsoft and Boeing mark advances in quantum computing
IBM today announced its Quiskit Functions Catalog, a collection of services that are designed to make it easier for enterprise developers to experiment with quantum use cases.
What is quantum cryptography? It’s no silver bullet, but could improve security
A New Type of Network Is on the Rise to Combat the Quantum Threat to Encryption
8 old technologies that still play roles in security
Latest Cybersecurity articles
NIST finally settles on quantum-safe crypto standards
After years of review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen three encryption algorithms as the basis for its post-quantum security strategy.
VMware Cloud gains faster ransomware recovery, expanded management capabilities
VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments
VMware combines SASE and edge management in new orchestration platform, announces private 5G service
Latest Networking articles
VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates
At the VMware Explore conference this week, Broadcom announced expanded AI support, including a new AI model store for VMware Private AI running on VMware Cloud Foundation.
IT supply issues have organizations shifting from just-in-time to just-in-case buying
Cisco DevNet certifications explained
Early adopters embrace private 5G
Who’s selling private 5G and what do you get?
Private 5G promising for enterprises, but growth stymied by pandemic, lack of hardware
latest Awards
latest Appearances
older Awards and Appearances

Jan. 2018: Maria Korolov talks with Sine Wave about “Succeeding As A Retailer In Immersive Worlds.”

Dec. 2017: Speaker at Stereopsia conference in Brussels, Belgium. Topic was women in virtual reality. Click here for slides.
Dec. 2017: Speaker at OpenSimulator Community Conference. Topic was a statistical overview of OpenSim development. Click here for slides.
Apr. 2017: Profiled in Viar360’s Women of VR – 35 Ladies Who Are Killing It In Virtual Reality
Aug. 2016: Mentioned in Marie Claire’s Virtual Reality Has a Female Mafia—and They’re Looking for New Recruits

May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast here. Read the transcript here.
Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.
Latest Blog Posts
DabbleDB, the online relational database platform that our company runs on, has been bought by Twitter. And, according to Dabble’s founders, Twitter has no interest…
Maria Korolov Trombly (center) appeared several times as a guest on the Culture Matters television talk show, airing on the International Channel Shanghai.
The China Speaker’s Bureau First book — A Changing China — is now out in print and available from Amazon. Maria Korolov edited the book,…
This article originally appeared in Shanghai Expat. By Maria Korolov Trombly I’ve seen a sharp influx of potential entrepreneurs to Shanghai when I was in…
I’ve seen a sharp influx of potential entrepreneurs to Shanghai when I was in town the last couple of months. As the U.S. and European…
My theory is, in China, the higher up you are the less work you do — poor people on farms, in mines work the hardest.…